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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1906)
THE iBATTALIHN Pablubcd Wadkhr b* «b« of tbc Jtericand : vCoUn^i-tX Tcan^ I T. K Hon.i» ft. Bkam W. O , . _ - 1 - ftaatouat Bb«mm Mnanfnr C. A. S*«rtM Local Kditor J A. Coluh* | - - Kxcbantc Editor c w. LBdaaTt - » Atamtic Editor b -;|il asAWTAVT Natron I j Caaar K. H STAnotraa K F, Kloolth l . Editor .o Chl.l )Bft»ftBl1ftili|lui >■ Cftlal C. A Scha»*_^P. O. K. PanoutlOM > A A. Ku i t T All umiaanfct IstMadnd far T»* Haiti taunt bear tk< Sftaatuan ol Mm wa«4nr uo t * Jr pluux will an KcaptcO Whiln Ut« nanM not be pntdtnliad. no notice mil bn taknt piecnn If thee nr* no* Mined 1 an nan a* rlnf matter i ■ Mob. Tunaa. rnbroerv IT. AMMI '» College ! WKDNEsiDAT, OCT. 8, 1808. " LETTERS FROM THE ALUMNI. Through the courtesy of Dr. Brown, we are able to print the following let^Hs from members of the class of ’06. The Hlecta-ic Clnb, 4*7 Centre St. Wilkinsbufg, Pa. ! Prof. N. H. Brown, College Station Texas . 1 Dear Prof. Brown: Sometimes I wish that I; could come back to College this year, Amt as it is I am more nearly satisfied than I ever was before. The Work is not too * bard; Although I get pretty tired sometimes, and I like the life here very well. 1 spent the first ten > Wdeks on the A. C.-D. C. lecomo- a lives, about four of these on the N. Y. N. Hj & H. locomotives, and po got some*very valuable ex- iPerienAR* f *- . The '-New Haven cars are the most complete machines I ever ssw. Some time jrben 1 have more paper I will teU yon all that 1 can of tfafemi and! maybe will be able to tell yOn of a few things that yo* do nbt already know of them. I wadt one of the blue Iprints, show^tg tnr ’ wiring, so much that t am almost tempted to steal one wfceh tta^y are left out. 3 have beeajkn! section £, on trans former coils i jt a week. One thing that had me ; “stalled" for some (time here a is the Series Trans former. I simply could not under stand its actioas, transforming cur rents, so to sp^ak, hastead of volt ages, till I, &>und' a very good article on thd subject in a Club Journal of alxipt a year ago. Then there is p gi>od! article on them in one of the lat^ Hlettrical Worlds. ■ Yofirs sincerely, Pirie. . Ijii ; tj LjTin, Mass., Aug. 17, 1906. Prof. If. H. Bfiowu. CoIlqgkjBtutiotii Texas. Dear Prof.: j I cannot put off writing to yod any longer for I have wanted to ever since my * arrival here. 1 hope that you will pot think and the A hr I 'have forgotten you df :M., for snch is all a _ The course here is fide, and I am certainly glad that I cann. to Lynn. I have been on the iesi induction motors ever since 1 started to work—my time is pp on this test ou the 25th of thta monj:hi I like the tests, and will he more than satisfied if aB turn! OtflPdi well as the induction motdr MjjlhJ A fall set of tests on the motors consists of load and eff., starting barque, excitation, impedanoe, and We take the cold resistance: and hot resistance also after a heat’ run. We have had a good deal of work also on starting boxes. When we haven’t a box, we balance our resistance with reactance coils, which is a long and tiresome job. We teat onr single phase for start ing torque with these boxes having full voltage ou all readings, and uee only one half voltage for three phase motors. The load a^d eff. test is our longest test—from this test we get the horse power .‘effi ciency, power factor, and per cent slip. On onr test we have had but one motor over a five horse power, which was a< fifteen; out of thfcg motor we got zS h. p. on our load and eff. Jtests, blit the engineers wanted 35 h. p. We test but very fepr two phase motors. The past week has been more to nyz than any other—the foreman of the test being away put me in charge, so t got more good than before. Where is your brother now? t hope he is in good health. I know he will do wett. With the best of wishes to all, Yonr jf^end, Huffman Baines. 51 Mall St., Wi Lynn. j j The following are extracts front | letters of C. G. Bi-own, who is iq ( Cleveland: ‘^1 started t<4 work for the North j ’Klectric last Monday morning. 1 I have been treated much better than I expected. ' It is easy to ask j questions. Lam not kept at each job as long as I supposed I would be. • X worked a little one day at assembling ringers, then I was put onto assembling transmitters and learned considerable of the work: Now- I am on receiver assembling and] will probably stay cm it till I knojn- all of it. The work is very | interesting. I will let you know more of it a little later." . ; ! ,! “The North Electric Company work is going finely. I have learned most of receiver and trans. assembling^. Have worked some on ringers and some on desk sets. I understand the N. ,E. Co. put most of their salesmen through the shop before they put them on the road. They (the prospective salesmen) spend most of their time, while in the shops, in as- - < » P| tf* s ■ A 'A *f«i C-V C==T ’ r n MM ' "he iFirst National Bank OF BRYAN, Designated United States Depositary. Capital Surplus and Profits SIOO,000.00 46,000.00 Wf dealra to AMU re oar patron, of prompt atten tion and patn.tnkiog endeavor in the performance of any and all aerTicee desired at oar hand*. J. W. HOWELL M. O. BOATWRIGHT GUY M.t BRYAN, JR. L. L. MdNNlS F. M. LAW j - 4 V. President Vice President Vice President Cashier Assistant Cashier — the N yies i«r Men This s the Clothing advance Fall afid everyone eo l It will pay you to see these style xnd the right style, but the quality, fit garments are thoroughly exclusive charactc duplicates and our best will be quickly take selection until later, if you so desire. great event of the year~our shewing |of the new W nter models. As kn >ws who is at all posted on the subject, the new styles are very largely originated by the S c h 1 o s s designers and later copied by others. The present season is a good illustration. Now that our Fall stock is here, we can show you ne\£ advance models that will notibe generally offered for at least two or three months. imiMl M5BII i garments. Not only are you certain of the new \nd incomparable workmanship of these ristica. Furthermore we have very few See them no**; we will reserve your The New “Harvard” sack i-i '"'T !■ ; 1 1 1 w - • 1 • V n\[:, iji Fashions don't come from Loudon and Paris any more—most of them are brought out at the great universitii ;s lifce Harvard, Yale, Princeton and otb«r famous institutions. Here is one of the best ai the new designs for Fall—called the “Harvard'* because the model came from there—well shown in the illustration. You'll find it just as correct for business wear in New York or San Francisco as it is on the Harvard campus. This is o mm to see them. one of our ‘‘University ' Mddels— “ Don't confuse this design with the ordinarf “straight-fronts'* that you may see. The similarity ends there. Little differences of line and shape and proportion, impossible to MHIH ■ructjtr describe, give this “Harvard” Suit an unnseal cha: by the fine tailoring. and smartness specially brought Our Schloss Suits cost from $12.50 to $25.00 Others $5.00 up ner ‘A Little Better for ^a Little Less—Always." m mi aembling phone switchboards:’’ and working of International & Great Northern Railroad Company. Engineering I >vpartment. Palestine, Tex., Sept. 16. Mr. T K. Holloway, College Station. Texas. Dear Friend: I received your circular letter some time ago but laid it aufay and in rummaging around today I found it again. As li Hi"! TL 'f'.ik-i I have no postals I will use this method of informing you that my original intention of returning to A. & M. has fallen through, and I am now working in the engineering de]>artment of the I. & G. N. AS Assistant Engineer With bead- quarters at Palestine. I will at the same time let yo* miter my name as a subscriber u the “Bat" for the coming session. I win pay you when I come down iq October v f. i-1 ’ f T-.~ h uS Px< .3 i, JS 1 some Sunday. Well, this is wasting your good! time, so 1 will close. Give all the boys my best, and with heat wishes for your success both as editor and otherwise, I beg to be, as ever, Your friend, L. G. Lenert. A For ready-made sheets, pillow cases and towels call on Wagner Brandon. jl a 14*1'